Tuesday, September 7, 2010

How can a "Good God" judge people and send them to Hell?

This weeks Text: Luke 16:19-31

This Weeks Psalm: 146

This weeks theme: Judgment and Hell

This weeks question: How can a "Good God" judge people and send them to Hell?


Now we come to a really sticky situation! If God is good, why is it that he seems so willing to judge people for wrongs (based on laws they didn't know) and then punish them eternally without any hope of repentance. This concept of judgment and hell seems to fly in the face of the concept of a loving God.

BUT! I believe that, counter to what it may now appear, the concepts of Judgment and Hell are absolutely crucial to understanding our own hearts, for living at peace in the world and for knowing the "unconditional" love of God. (Hint - there was my outline ;)

Luke 16 will give us some very important insights and counter intuitive answers to this difficult question.

SONG SUGGESTION/ REQUESTS : Please follow up with the new Hymn from last week "Jesus Paid it all" - I love that one!!!! also - if you could give the Sojourn "We are Changed" song a shot - it fits with the whole series really well - and it's super cool too.

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  1. AshlocksSeptember 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM

    So after the message, I was stuck by the same idea, the same urging that has been my shadow for the last couple years, and that is that I am living in a world that I have created. I have a reality, separate from yours. To recognize this, fully, is to recognize the development of lies. It is these things that separate me from understanding the atmosphere of heaven. From fully embracing how God moves. I've wanted for so long to "simplify" things, to break them down, strip away all the extras and meet God in the raw...but I'm seeing now that, if I focus on the how to, the mechanisms of meeting God, and how I can create an atmosphere of simplicity - I've become my worst enemy. I will have created an entirely new set of rules to get to God. Instead I see that Its in the understanding that God's love IS unconditional, its not earned, its freely given and that I just choosing to release my rules of how things move, of how the world hangs in perfect balance, how you love and how God is able to love that whats real is much easier to follow than my pseudo order of operations. Which include my view of hell, and who is going.

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